Antyk i współczesność: wokół pragmatyki tekstu antycznego (1Tm 1, 17). Z badań nad tradycją antyczną na Górnym Śląsku

The article presents an interpretation of the Soli Deo honor et gloria inscription from the fronton of the metropolitan cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice. The interpretation of the text depends on whether the word soli is taken as solely attributive or also as predicative. Given both the ancient and the contemporary historical and cultural contexts the former appears more plausible.

Vocis in fronte archicathedralis Catoviciensis inscriptae vis sensusque investigatur. Cuius inscriptionis verba Soli Deo honor et gloria, S. Pauli Epistulae ad Timotheum primae locus (1 Tm 1, 17), comparatu cum Graeco eorum primo exemplo (mÒnJ qeù, tim¾ kaˆ dÒxa) digna apparent, ut dicti utriusque linguae ostendatur ambiguitas, quae in adiectivi pronominalis solus usu aut attributivo aut praedicativo consistat. Examinatis in inscriptione interpretanda rebus omnibus, quas ad antiquitatis memoriam et ad cultum atque humanitatem huius aetatis pertinere constat, usus attributivus probandus esse videtur.